the personal (and mostly parenthetical) asides of Jake Nassif.

Slow down

There’s a lot of talk about vaccines and hand-washing lately. We’re getting reports from across town of families in quarantine. There’s a cousin in the hospital with pneumonia. My spleen just gave me one of those “hello” stabs. And suddenly Jo’s got symptoms. Has it begun? There’s sun coming through the window and all we have to do today is feed ourselves.